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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

blog.redfin.com

Real Estate Tips for Home Buying, Selling, & More - Redfin Blog

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

296 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.redfin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 296 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.redfin.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.176

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

296 ms

otSDKStub.js

65 ms

ramp_config.js

490 ms

js

98 ms

style.min.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.redfin.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 1% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.intergient.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (718 ms) relates to the external source Redfin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.redfin.com main page is 5.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 312.8 kB

  • Original 356.1 kB
  • After minification 345.4 kB
  • After compression 43.3 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 312.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.3 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Blog Redfin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 327.5 kB
  • After minification 327.5 kB
  • After compression 325.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 217.2 kB
  • After minification 217.2 kB
  • After compression 209.2 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Blog.redfin.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (65%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Redfin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 50 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

296 ms

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Accessibility Review

blog.redfin.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

blog.redfin.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.redfin.com SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.redfin.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Blog.redfin.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

blog.redfin.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blog Redfin. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: